I take an active intrest in the evoultion of western socity. Over the last 20 years i say we have been experincing a decline of sorts after the boom of what is histrocily refered to as the modern era from the 1950's to the 1990's. Where democray and capalism became the major shaping forces.

The 90's i say was for the most part a boring decade that never had a real sense of it self. And the 00's a realization of that and as a result we became very nostalgic.

Generely every period of histroy experinces this. I think this decade though we will see a lot of change and new era start to take shape.

Of course im only 24 so my experince on this topic is very limted admitley. It would be nice to here from older memebers there feelings on the last 50, 40 or 30 or so years.

Quoting widescreenforever:

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Well the first thing today that comes to mind is todays  date ..
1/11/11  ... 

Your in the future 

It's 11/1/11 here 

FWIW, I live in Taiwan and the calendar showed 100-1-11 (we moved on since ).